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Comment Hell yes (Score 1) 804

by reydelamirienda on Thursday December 30, 2010 @08:41AM (#34709358) Attached to: Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use?

Yes please! And while we are at it, also in conferences during talks. In every CS conference I attend, there's more people chatting than paying attention to the talks. If you don't want to listen, just don't go. This will also make people realize the awful quality of scientific presenters in general, since they will be forced to pay attention to them.

Comment Obligatory quote... (Score 2, Funny) 312

by reydelamirienda on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @03:11PM (#33511980) Attached to: Cooking For Geeks

How To Cook For Geeks... How To Cook Forty Geeks... How To Cook For Forty Geeks!

Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 178

by reydelamirienda on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @03:24AM (#32662368) Attached to: Arrests For Selling Poison-Ware In Spain

Uhm, from the "Spanish FBI" website, I read that it was a SA company, so apparently if you are really evil they will go after you after all!

Comment Re:Nice (Score 2, Interesting) 178

by reydelamirienda on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @03:20AM (#32662342) Attached to: Arrests For Selling Poison-Ware In Spain

I'm not an expert but I'd say that depends on what kind of company it was. If you have a SRL (Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada, Limited Liability Company), they can go after you for fraud (the limitation of liability is restricted to debts), otherwise I think it's harder...

Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine 343

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 24, 2009 @02:31PM from the many-humans-do-the-same dept.

fsufitch writes "Wine has advanced enough to make Linux not immune to Windows viruses. However, just like many Wine applications, it takes a bit of effort to get the program off the ground. Also, just like some Windows programs running via Wine, not all features may work — in this case, the crippling of the system, immunity to the task manager, identity theft, etc."

Comment Re:Lost in The Hague Netherlands (Score 1) 520

by reydelamirienda on Friday August 14, 2009 @04:54AM (#29063091) Attached to: My sense of direction is ...

Did you order a brownie with your coffee in the coffeeshop?

At least you didn't have to drive in a European city, where all the streets are one-way, and completely random... Once you know your city, it's fine, but when you arrive in a new place...

note: I'm European

Comment Hallmarks of Felinity (Score 1) 503

by reydelamirienda on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @09:32AM (#28690055) Attached to: Cats "Exploit" Humans By Purring

Number 26: Saturation Purring

I hope this was in the "Related work" section...

Comment Acronyms and Dutch (Score 1) 219

by reydelamirienda on Friday January 16, 2009 @07:02PM (#26490357) Attached to: The Zen of SOA

SOA is short for "seksueel overdraagbare aandoening" (sexually transmitted disease).

COTS is pronounced exactly the same way as "kots": vomit.

Comment Divide by cucumber error (Score 5, Funny) 623

by reydelamirienda on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @02:04PM (#25139481) Attached to: The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time

+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++

12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports 236

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 03, 2008 @06:02PM from the dignity-lost-even-more-often dept.

kthejoker writes "Apparently companies are even worse about losing our data than we suspected. From the article: 'According to a study of 106 major US airports and 800 business travelers published by the Ponemon Institute and Dell Computer, about 12,000 laptops are lost in airports each week. Only 30 percent of travelers ever recover the lost devices. Nearly half of the travelers say their laptops contain customer data or confidential business information.' Kinda scary..."

First Looks at Microsoft's New "Live Mesh" Platform 208

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 23, 2008 @10:58AM from the live-mesh-all-nude dept.

technirvana writes "Microsoft's Live Mesh service launched today as an invite-only 'technology preview.' It is Microsoft's attempt to tie all of our data together. Live Mesh synchronizes data across multiple devices (currently just Windows computers, but theoretically it will extend to mobile and other devices in the future) as well as to a web desktop that exists in the cloud. It can sync data across devices used by a single users, as well as create shared spaces for multiple users." And since it's run by Microsoft, you know you can trust it.

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